tarboat's photos with the keyword: statue

This sphinx statue is situated on Lauderdale House in Dunbar. This Category A listed building incorporates a central block from around 1740,built for Captain James Fall, a wealthy Dunbar merchant. The building was significantly enlarged built to the design of Robert Adam in 1790 - 1792 for the Earl of Lauderdale and the sphinx was added at that time.

The mercat (or market) cross in Haddington is topped with this goat which sports a fine set of broze horns. The structure can be seen to be dated 1880.

The Chinese say that where there is a public statue of Chairman Mao it always points the way to the railway station! This example points the way from outside the Sichuan Science and Technology Museum in Chengdu.

The Brandenburg Gate in the rain.

It's amazing what you find in the garden when you book for bed and breakfast.

Neptune and two fishwives, complete with baskets of fish adorn the parapet above the doorway of the former Fish Market on the quayside in Newcastle upon Tyne. The building was completed in 1880 and the sculptor was George Burn. It is now a nightclub.

'Memento Park is not about Communism itself, but the fall of Communism!' So speaks the guidebook to the Statue Park in Budapest wherein stand the 'Gigantic monuments from the age of communist dictatorship'. In a quiet area some distance from the city centre stands this park built to house the socialist monuments that once stood around Budapest. This 9.5 metre high bronze statue commemorates the defence of the Republic of Councils against foreign interventionist forces and is heavily based on a poster of the period; Robert Berenyi's "To Arms!".

Queen Victoria is slightly hidden by the veil of the pigeon netting as she presides over the entrance to Birmingham's Victoria Law Courts. This magnificent red terracotta building was completed in 1891 with most of the decorative work supplied by J C Edwards of Ruabon. The creation of this particular statue for Edwards' was undertaken by London based sculptor Harry Bates. The quality of the work on this building is outstanding and it is no surprise that it is Grade 1 listed.

Statue and sculptures over the entrance to the Merchant Seaman's Hospital Houses at Whitby. These almshouses are run for the benefit of ex-seamen who have lived in the Whitby area.

It is amazing what passes for a garden ornament. The Elephant and Castle stands in the garden of Laundry Cottage in Peckforton. It was carved in the 1850s by John Watson, a stonemason who worked on Peckforton Castle. It is said that it stood in the garden of his cottage until it was demolished and was then moved to its present location. It is further suggested that the elephant was chosen as it featured on the family arms of the Corbetts, who owned Peckforton up to the 1620s.

Queen Victoria was looking sartorially altered today on her plinth outside the Crown Court in Chester. I am sure she would not have been amused.